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This paper proposes a deep Convolutional Neural Network(CNN) with strong generalization ability for structural topology optimization. The architecture of the neural network is made up of encoding and decoding parts, which provide down- and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-01 Yiquan Zhang , Bo Peng , Xiaoyi Zhou , Cheng Xiang , Dalei Wang

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved remarkable empirical success, yet the absence of a principled theoretical foundation continues to hinder their systematic development. In this survey, we present differential equations as a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Hongjue Zhao , Yizhuo Chen , Yuchen Wang , Hairong Qi , Lui Sha , Tarek Abdelzaher , Huajie Shao

We study regularized deep neural networks (DNNs) and introduce a convex analytic framework to characterize the structure of the hidden layers. We show that a set of optimal hidden layer weights for a norm regularized DNN training problem…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-14 Tolga Ergen , Mert Pilanci

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are now the de facto choice for computer vision tasks such as image classification. However, their complexity and "black box" nature often renders the systems they're deployed in vulnerable to a range of security…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Chandramouli Amarnath , Aishwarya H. Balwani , Kwondo Ma , Abhijit Chatterjee

In the field of pattern recognition research, the method of using deep neural networks based on improved computing hardware recently attracted attention because of their superior accuracy compared to conventional methods. Deep neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-27 Kyongsik Yun , Alexander Huyen , Thomas Lu

Recently, methods have been developed to accurately predict the testing performance of a Deep Neural Network (DNN) on a particular task, given statistics of its underlying topological structure. However, further leveraging this newly found…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Stuart Synakowski , Fabian Benitez-Quiroz , Aleix M. Martinez

Deep learning is a group of exciting new technologies for neural networks. Through a combination of advanced training techniques and neural network architectural components, it is now possible to create neural networks that can handle…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-18 Jeff Heaton

Complex nonlinear models such as deep neural network (DNNs) have become an important tool for image classification, speech recognition, natural language processing, and many other fields of application. These models however lack…

In recent years, deep neural networks have been applied to obtain high performance of prediction, classification, and pattern recognition. However, the weights in these deep neural networks are difficult to be explained. Although a linear…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-08 Chi-Hua Chen

Deep neural networks are widely used for nonlinear function approximation with applications ranging from computer vision to control. Although these networks involve the composition of simple arithmetic operations, it can be very challenging…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-02 Changliu Liu , Tomer Arnon , Christopher Lazarus , Christopher Strong , Clark Barrett , Mykel J. Kochenderfer

A robust theoretical framework that can describe and predict the generalization ability of deep neural networks (DNNs) in general circumstances remains elusive. Classical attempts have produced complexity metrics that rely heavily on global…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-20 Marelie H. Davel , Marthinus W. Theunissen , Arnold M. Pretorius , Etienne Barnard

Our proposed deeply-supervised nets (DSN) method simultaneously minimizes classification error while making the learning process of hidden layers direct and transparent. We make an attempt to boost the classification performance by studying…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-04-26 Chen-Yu Lee , Saining Xie , Patrick Gallagher , Zhengyou Zhang , Zhuowen Tu

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have been used to create models for many complex analysis problems like image recognition and medical diagnosis. DNNs are a popular tool within machine learning due to their ability to model complex patterns and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Parth Patil , Ben Boardley , Jack Gardner , Emily Loiselle , Deerajkumar Parthipan

The last decade of machine learning has seen drastic increases in scale and capabilities. Deep neural networks (DNNs) are increasingly being deployed in the real world. However, they are difficult to analyze, raising concerns about using…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Tilman Räuker , Anson Ho , Stephen Casper , Dylan Hadfield-Menell

In an ever expanding set of research and application areas, deep neural networks (DNNs) set the bar for algorithm performance. However, depending upon additional constraints such as processing power and execution time limits, or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Nathan Dahlin , Krishna Chaitanya Kalagarla , Nikhil Naik , Rahul Jain , Pierluigi Nuzzo

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have emerged as key enablers of machine learning. Applying larger DNNs to more diverse applications is an important challenge. The computations performed during DNN training and inference are dominated by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-17 Jeremy Kepner , Vijay Gadepally , Hayden Jananthan , Lauren Milechin , Sid Samsi

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are increasingly deployed in different applications to achieve state-of-the-art performance. However, they are often applied as a black box with limited understanding of what knowledge the model has learned from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Shihao Zhao , Xingjun Ma , Yisen Wang , James Bailey , Bo Li , Yu-Gang Jiang

Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have achieved breakthrough performance in many pattern recognition tasks such as image classification. However, the development of high-quality deep models typically relies on a substantial amount…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-05 Mengchen Liu , Jiaxin Shi , Zhen Li , Chongxuan Li , Jun Zhu , Shixia Liu

The ubiquity of neural networks (NNs) in real-world applications, from healthcare to natural language processing, underscores their immense utility in capturing complex relationships within high-dimensional data. However, NNs come with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Chang Yue , Niraj K. Jha

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are analyzed via the theoretical framework of the information bottleneck (IB) principle. We first show that any DNN can be quantified by the mutual information between the layers and the input and output…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-03-10 Naftali Tishby , Noga Zaslavsky